by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon When, at the Council of Nicaea, the Church formally determined that Pascha should always be observed on a Sunday, that determination necesarily affected the final day of Pentecost. Thus, beginning and ending on a Sunday, the whole fifty days of Pentecost began to take on some of characteristics associated with […]

by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos The decision of the Holy Synod is known regarding the visit of the Pope to Greece. It will receive the Pope as a secular leader, as head of the Vatican State, who had accepted an invitation from the leader of the Greek State and is visiting Greece. Within this framework […]